[1] It was built in 1850 by Andrew Pickens Calhoun as an overseer's house for this, his second slave plantation.

Andrew Calhoun was the son of John C. Calhoun, seventh Vice President of the United States, who frequented the Octagon House while in Washington, D.C. as Secretary of War and later an independent outlier of the anti-Jacksonian Whig Party, later realigning himself with the Democrats' policies.

It was sold in 1863 to Tristram Benjamin Bethea, who resided in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Originally a one-story structure, the house was later enlarged on the ground floor and a second story added by the Bethea family.

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